OK all.  I have held this under my hat since Feb 1 when I heard an
unmistakable lark sparrow song from a brush pile behind a neighbor's
house off Dublin Road S. of the Hayden Run Bridge in Columbus.  I got
a very brief sighting, but the id was still primarily on the auditory
image which I matched with several from the on line catalog of sounds
on the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics web site.  Even though I am
more pretty proficient at bird song id I didn't feel I should make
the report based on that on this forum.

But!!! this am at my bird feeder the (a) lark sparrow was observed
for over 20 minutes - no doubt on identification.

I have had lark sparrow at my house and the BLB in their collection
in early spring - but never before March.

Cheers, Sandy
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Sandra L. L. Gaunt                       Home: phone 614-876-5829
Borror Lab of Bioacoustics,                     cell 614-581-1925
    Curator retired                                      4795 Hayden Blvd
Museum of Biological Diversity                  Columbus OH
43221
The Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus 43212-1192

   ()< o/'o/'o/' BLB web site with catalog, database, sounds, etc.
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